The Ruins

reviewed by Sam Osborn

Attractive, American, and reasonably dumb, four upperclassmen college students are spending a week’s vacation hitting the sands and margaritas of Mexico. They’re a couple of couples, best friends Amy and Stacy (Jena Malone and Laura Ramsey) with their boyfriends, Jeff and Eric (Jonathan Tucker and Shawn Ashmore). The four decide to spend their last day wearing more than bikinis to follow their new German friend, Mathias (Joe Anderson), out to an archeological Mayan dig site. A bus, a taxi, and a four mile hike later, they emerge from the jungles whiny and amazed, standing before an enormous, ancient pyramid. But out from the jungle pounce the natives wielding bows and revolvers, chasing the Americans to the top of their pyramid and quarantining them to the evils that hide within their ruins.

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